I have definitely decided to return to Greece and would like to fulfill my determination the earliest possible. Therefore I respectfully beg you to agree to my resignation from your service, the sooner you will grant me the grace, the more will grow the obbligations thay have (profess) towards you and that I will have eternally for the special preference that you have deigned to give me.

Receive and fulfill my humble prayers and believe me with the deepest respect and subordination.

Mrs Marietta Rossi, left from this house on the 13th June 1829 at 7.45 in the morning, then she embarked at the London Dock and she departed at 10.07 minutes with the merchant ship (bastimento) here indicated as
The Brig Ann, - London Dock Buoy in the River
and she departed for Saint Petersburg accompanied to the ship by Antonio Loga Zambelli and by Aspasia his daughter then by Giovanni Battista Falcieri

Well it certainly helps if you can transcribe the original Italian correctly, I suspect my copy typing may have been a little out on these so apologies to everyone, it isn't the easiest of handwriting to decipher!

The 1829 note is particularly interesting, and you have certainly changed the context of it, I'm not so sure it was written by Falcieri as it seems to imply him in the third party. In any case it is still very usefull to me and has potentially opened up some new lines of enquiry for me.

If I get any more italian documents to transcribe I know where to go. Thank you very much indeed!

Yes I agree with you on that. I'm going to do a handwriting analysis on them but I think you are correct. The only one I think is genuine is the 1825 letter as it is a personal resignation and I know from other accounts that he presented his master with this letter who said he had written it.

There are some samples of writing allegedly by him in English but I am doubtful. I will pull them all off and take a better look.

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